![]() ![]() ‘Jay’ is no longer useful and could blow the entire operation if he blabbers. If this is the case, maybe Zoom killed him at the end of this episode because his work is now done – the Velocity drug seems to pretty much work now, so Zoom can just come in and steal it. Perhaps Zoom has told ‘Jay’ to up his game and bring him some Speed Force to feed on. It would also explain why ‘Jay’ has taken a sudden interest in regaining his powers over the last few weeks. The ‘Jay’ we’ve seen could have stolen the original’s face in the same way that Eobard Thawne stole Harrison Wells’ identity back in season 1 (explaining why all the Earth-2 guest stars recognise ‘Jay’ as The Flash). One theory doing the rounds is that the man in the mask is the true Jay Garrick (whom Zoom is keeping alive to siphon speed from), while the character played by Teddy Sears that audiences have come to know as Jay is actually a fake who works for Zoom. The masked man’s response to hearing that Jay is still alive on Earth-1 wasn’t that of ‘oh good, our hero lives on!’, it was more like ‘oh God, you don’t understand this situation at all!’ Obviously, there’s something go on with Jay Garrick that fans don’t know about yet. ![]() Leaving us with the big question… So, who the heck is he? Him and Barry share a moment, with their clenched fists touching the glass simultaneously. He vows to come back and save him when all this pesky world-saving business is over. This suggests – if Zoom’s other decisions are anything to go by – that the masked man could still have an important role to play in proceedings (does he have speed or another superpower that Zoom seeks to steal?), or could be used as emotional leverage against someone else.Īt the end of the episode, Barry is forced to leave the masked man behind. For some reason, Zoom has imprisoned him rather than murdering him. This masked guy clearly has history with Jay and Zoom, and has been locked up and silenced to stop him from spilling important secrets. Zoom promptly bursts in and puts a stop to the chitter chatter. This causes a big emotional response from the man in the mask, who wallops his fists on the glass and shuffles around a bit (which, in fairness, is about as much emotion as he’s capable of displaying). When Barry asks if he means Jay Garrick – the man he believes to be Earth-2’s Flash, who has spent most of the season on Earth-1 mingling with the STAR Labs crew (and ends up dead at the end of the episode) – the masked man nods in clarification.īarry assumes that the masked man thinks Jay is dead, and quickly explains that he is actually still alive and has relocated to Earth-1. Once the code is broken, our face-hiding glass-knocker manages to communicate just one word before Zoom threatens him and shuts him up. Could this be a character who’s been held captive somewhere before? Or has he just been Zoom’s prisoner for so long that he worked out a code for himself? Either option is plausible. It takes Barry Allen a while to recognise his knocking as a five-part ‘tap code’ used by prisoners of war. It’s the most emotional glass-tapping we’ve seen on screen since Bernard Cribbins in Doctor Who. Seeing as he’s masked, muted and without anything to write on, The Flash’s new mysterious character has to communicate by knocking on the clear front wall of his cell. His actionsīreaking Bad’s Heisenberg has competition for the title of ‘The One Who Knocks’. We can also rule out Wally West and Diggle (if that helmet was enough to get you on-board that speculation train), based on physical appearance alone. That doesn’t help much, though, as we already knew about all of their Earth-2 counterparts. If it’s a recognisable actor under there, though, The CW may have made them wear extra layers under the jumpsuit thingy to hide their exact physiology from the viewer.Įither way, that dirty blond hair helps us rule a few of the male cast members out: the masked man can’t be another version of Barry Allen, or Harrison Wells, or Cisco Ramon, or Joe West, or Ronnie Raymond. He’s not rake-thin skinny, but he’s not Arnold Schwarzenegger-levels of muscular either. So, our mystery masked man seems to a fairly heavy-set guy. ![]()
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